Dizkus

6 weeks ago i come up with the idea to make a whole new website and forum for my growing forum for public subway and busdrivers, wich is my profession to. The old forum was on a public host service and the ads became very annoying.

So i start a search in a whole new area for me to find something that can make what i want.
After a small experience with .asp i found out my hosting company did not fully had support for asp.net so i switch to .php and ending with PostNuke, after a compare between different systems like this.

I have medium experience in using a computer (i guess), let's just say i can reformat a pc and know how to configure a Sata drive ;)
I also have knowledge about basic stuff like FTP, HTML and edit a file, but never had experience with .php, templates and other more sophisticated applications.

After 6 weeks i came up with a website that was beyond my imagination. Without the knowledge of PHP or difficult .html codes PostNuke give me the opportunity to build a professional website that is very stable, i include the PNphpBB2 forum, and every day it's making more sense to me and getting easyer tot manage the website.

I write this for people who wants tot start with PostNuke but think it would be diffucult and they are not going to succeed.
Some items took me 3 days to found out, that's true (for example the blue colored bars in the PNphpBB forum that stays without color, but that is a PNphpBB2 issue, it has to do with the langague)
You have to read the manual for each item that you want to use in PostNuke very carefully, and not just read, but really understand what's written, read it again untill you really know what they mean ;)
On a scale to 10 where 1 is novice pc user and 10 is high experienced pc user, a place the knowledge that you must have to use PostNuke and make a professional website with it at 5.

And if you do that and don't give up en carefully build the pieces together en keep yourself concentrated (and it is not sò hard to do or learn) and willing to try again if something goes wrong, you gonna experience the power of the PostNuke system, and end up with the website that you have in mind, and your visitors gonna felicitate you for your project, but give the credits to PostNuke, and say "my job was just putting the pieces together and connect them to give them life"

Thanks at the whole PostNuke team, thank you very much !

My website made with PostNuke 0.764 (it is in Dutch en mostly only accessible for free registered users, feel free to register if you wanna see more of the PostNuke modules i use) is at this location:

http://www.buitendelijnen.be



edited by: lijnman, Apr 21, 2007 - 10:50 PM

Thanks for the positive feedback, it's always nice to hear. I'm glad your site has worked out well, too.

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